Action Reports – Page 56

Nate Ebert Takes Plea Deal, Vows to Continue Fight Against Fracking

15/06/13. Nate Ebert, who, on February 19th climbed a 30 foot pole anchored to a frack waste truck and shut down GreenHunter Water’s frack waste transfer facility in New Matamoras, Ohio for most of a business day, took a plea deal this morning in the Marietta Municipal Court in Marietta, OH. He pled to charges of trespassing and resisting arrest. He received a suspended sentence and will serve no jail time.

Upon leaving the courthouse, Ebert, 33, who lives in Athens County, Ohio, said, “GreenHunter is making millions of dollars from storing and dumping toxic radioactive waste in Ohio. For the sake of profit that is channeled out of state, they are threatening the health and safety of our communities up and down the Ohio River. The state of Ohio should make it a priority to block GreenHunter’s unscrupulous activities, and protect Ohio residents instead of protecting industry.” He called for a ban of injection wells in the state of Ohio. If passed, House Bill 148, recently proposed by Representatives Denise Driehaus and Bob Hagan, and backed by more than 40 Ohio community groups, would ban injection wells statewide.

On February 19th, Ohio residents and allies from numerous environmental groups including Earth First! disrupted operations at GreenHunter Water’s frack-waste storage site along the Ohio River in Washington County. Ebert, a member of Appalachia Resist!, ascended a 30 foot pole anchored to a brine truck in the process of unloading frack waste, preventing all trucks carrying frack waste from entering the site.

Over one hundred supporters gathered at the facility, protesting GreenHunter’s plans to increase capacity for toxic frack waste dumping in Ohio. GreenHunter has sought approval from the Coast Guard to ship frack waste across the Ohio River via barge at a rate of up to half a million gallons per load. The Ohio River is a drinking source for more than 5 million people. Test results from multiple frack waste samples reveal high levels of benzene, toluene, arsenic, barium, and radium, among other carcinogenic and radioactive chemicals.

While at the top of the pole, Ebert said, “We are here to send a message that the people of Ohio and Appalachia will not sit idly by and watch our homes be turned into a sacrifice zone!”

Ten people were arrested at the February 19th demonstration. Nine of them took plea deals. The tenth arrestee was a member of the media. Last week, all charges against that individual were dropped.

Since the February 19th protest, GreenHunter has announced its intentions to open numerous frack waste storage and transfer facilities up and down the Ohio River, including a newly proposed site in Wheeling, West Virginia. The Wheeling proposal is the target of emphatic opposition from many Wheeling residents, who gathered at a May 22nd public meeting to let GreenHunter CEO John Jack know that they distrust GreenHunter’s motives and methods, citing worries about radioactive waste. Despite USGS reports of dangerous radioactivity levels in frack waste, Jack refused to answer any questions about radioactivity.

Berlin-Kreuzberg: Soli-demo for the revolt in Turkey (Germany)

15/06/13

Berlin-Kreuzberg salutes the people revolting in Turkey

15/06/13

Berlin-Kreuzberg salutes the people revolting in Turkey

Everyday since the beginning of the revolt about two weeks ago, people went on the streets in Berlin to show their solidarity with the ongoing fights in Turkey. Another short and wild demonstration took place in the center of Kreuzberg yesterday evening, the 7th of June, where around 50 people marched towards Kottbusser Tor, shouting slogans and lighting fireworks.

Material from a construction site got pulled on the street, so after a short while the traffic was blocked in every direction. The cops, that were making a drugraid at this moment, got attacked with stones, paintbombs and fire. After that the mob dispersed.

Shortly before the demonstrators reached Kottbusser Tor, leaflets were spread in the close area. The text was written in turkish and german and circulated some days before fridays action. Banners were hung up as well saying „Berlin salutes Istanbul-for social revolt worldwide“ and „Özgürlük için omuz omuza!“ („Side by side towards freedom“). As was written in the newspapers two people got arrested by the cops and released the next day.

We send our solidarity to them as well, since they are facing the repression of the police and the state justice system.

We will be back again, where, when and how we want. Take part in the demonstrations, prepare actions and show the rebels that we are fighting on their side, just in a different city.

Our thoughts are with the families, friends and comrades of Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, Abdullah Cömert and Ethem Sarısülük, that got killed during the revolt.

Freedom for the prisoners!

Side by side towards freedom!

The leaflet that was handed out:

Solidarity with the revolting people

People flock the streets, barricades are set up, cars are burning and everything thats not fixed gets thrown at the police. The sky is clouded by teargas and a scream for freedom makes its way through the dust.
The planned destruction of one of the last green spots in Istanbul, to have a shopping mall instead, was the spark that brought thousand of people on the streets for resistance. Until now the revolt spread like a wildfire all over the country.

No matter how different the motivations and reasons of everyone involved may be, they open new spaces of self-organization, solidarity and controversy by bursting the existent.
All these things that are rarely happening in this world as we know it. Between school, work, paying your rent, feeding your family and so on, it looks like there is no time to dispute with the destruction of our environment.
We like the fact, that there are people that still doing exactly that. As we can see, the small fights in your daily life can be the trigger of a general uprising.
We are recognizing the smoke signals of the cities and we see these fights matching up with our own ones- against displacement, degradation and police violence.
That’s why we call out for solidarity with the people of the uprising. Let them see the signals on Bosporus as well, so that they are not all one.

Side by side towards freedom! (A)

Reclaim the Fields and Climate camp 2013 in Colone, Germany

Reclaim the Fields and AusgeCO2hlt invite you to an actioncamp in Rhineland, close to Cologne (Germany), from 23.8. until 6.9. 2013.

Reclaim the Fields and AusgeCO2hlt invite you to an actioncamp in Rhineland, close to Cologne (Germany), from 23.8. until 6.9. 2013. For three days we will take collective direct action against the open cast mining in Rhineland. Furthermore there will be a program including different practical and theoretical workshops, discussions and a lot more.

http://www.reclaimthefields.org/camp2013

On the background of the struggles in Rhineland we want to facilitate an exchange of dissident knowledge and action.We invite to 14 days of networking, collective learning and discussion as well as practical activities to exchange knowledge and skills and to resist in the Rhineland.

Apart from the three days of action there will be a lot of space for Workshops and getting to know each other to create new links.The Camp is a participatory process and waits for your contribution! We are looking forward to your ideas, contents and skills to create a program together.

You are artists, activists, peasants, urban gardeners, are living on a collective farm or are active in political campaigns or groups? You want to share you experiences, pass and broaden your knowledge? Then you are welcome to do this in the course of workshops, discussions, practical work or in other ways.

We look forward to alternative ideas on topics like collective and solidariy form of living and working beyond capitalism and structures of exploitation. Everything that strengthens our diverse daily and organized resistance is welcome.

Contact us at program (at) reclaimthefields.org

Some potential themes for workshops to inspire you:

foodsouvereignty // right wing politics in eco movement // animal rights/animal Liberation // self-supply/-sufficiency // self-organisation // access to land // connecting urban and rural struggles // urban supply of rural collectives (Community Supported Agriculture, Non-Commercial Agriculture) // permaculture // Private Properties – Commons // History and development of Agriculture: Agriculture and Capitalism (Green Revolution) // land liberation through purchase of land (different means of access to land: squatting, buying, etc) // how to organise struggles, „how to do resistance“/share and learn forms of resistance // energy // botany/knowlegde of herbs and plants

What is Ausgeco2hlt?

Our Campaign sees itself as an open platform where different groups and individuals can network with each other, educate themselves and take collective action. Our aim is to organize a broad protest movement against RWE¹ and for the immediate shut down of the open cast mines in the Rhineland coal fields.

We see the protest against brown coal as part of a global climate movement against Coal-energy, the exploitation of shale gas, Carbon-dioxide storage, etc. and stand in solidarity with energy struggles against fossil-nuclear capitalism.

We are convinced that in order to facilitate a true energy transformation, monopolised power structures have to be questioned and we have to change the rules of the game of the concurrent economy, built upon limitless growth and consumption of resources.Thus we support initiatives for self-determined ways of living as an alternative to superfluous consumption. At the same time we demand a collectivization of energy companies and a decentralized energy supply with renewable energies.

What is Reclaim the Fields?

Reclaim the Fields is a europewide constellation of peasants, landless and prospective peasants, as well as people who are taking back control over food production.We support and encourage people to stay on the land and go back to the countryside. We promote food sovereignty (as defined in the Nyéléni declaration) and peasant agriculture, as well as alternative ways of life.We are determined to create alternatives to capitalism through cooperative, collective, autonomous, real-needs-oriented, small-scale production and initiatives. We are putting theory into practice and linking local practical action with global political struggles.

Seeds

The "Reclaim the seeds" working group invites people to come with selfproduced seeds and any document they think would be nice to share. With the practise of seed swap's we want to reflect about the subject of seeds collectively.

A Camp welcoming Children

The Camp is meant to be a children friendly space, where children and their affinity persons have a space and are included in actions, the program and other camp activities. We are aware that political actions and camps often contain obstacles for parents and affinity person of children and thus exclude them. Taking into account the real needs of children and affinity persons we want to create a space for everyone. Please feel welcome to come to the camp and participate! We would be happy if you would get in touch with us beforehand in order to talk about an adequate arrangement.

No space for Racism or Sexism – Not at the Camp nor anywhere else

The camp explicitly takes a stand against Sexism and Racism as well as other forms of domination on the basis of hierarchical social categories, the camp positions itself determinant against sexist and racist acts.

Costs of the Camp

We try to organize the camp as low-cost as possible but are dependent on your solidarity contributions. Please get in touch with us if you want to come but the travel is too expensive for you. We want to make it possible for everybody to come and share travel costs in a collective manner, but can not guarantee anything.

Visa

If you need a Visa to get to the camp an want to be supported in that case, get in touch with us at – camp2013_AT_reclaimthefields.org

Information and contact

More, up to date, information about the program, how to get to the camp, food, camping, etc. can be found at www.reclaimthefield.org/camp/2013

Through the mailadress camp2013_AT_reclaimthefields.org you can reach us with questions about the camp.

For workshops please write to program[at]reclaimthefields.org.

For more information about RtF and Ausgeco2hlt visit: reclaimthefields.org and ausgeco2hlt.de

Register for the camp at: reclaimthefields.org/registration

The more people register the easier it is for us to plan!

Feel free to forward this call to individuals or groups you know and come to the camp!

Resistance is fertile!

Your Camp-Organisation

¹RWE is Germanys second biggest energy supply concern, that keeps on using cole as th main energy and has compared to other european companies a very low share of regenerative energies in the mix of energies. RWE is being critisised of doing greewashing with "climate campaigns" whilst through open cast mining a lot of nature and towns are being destroyed, aswell as lowering the groundwater.

Riot Police Raid Gezi Gardens and Evict Treesits

14/06/13.

14/06/13. Police removing tree-sitter.

As police in Turkey continue to try and remove people from Gezi Park in Istanbul, last night over 100 riot police raided the encampment at Fell and Laguna, arresting 7 people, removed tree sitters, and destroyed crops and structures. A seen in one video, one tree-sitter fell from their tree while being removed, although it is unclear if they have any serious injuries.

According to Liberate the Land, “Folks are gathering at Patricia’s Green on Octavia Street between Hayes Street and Fell Street now after a night time lightning raid by SFPD on #GeziGardens, the former site of Hayes Valley Farm on Oak and Laguna Streets, with guns drawn. Folks who just went through the raid and supporters need food, a kitchen, sleeping bags, banner making materials, paint, etc. Come gather with us today, meet up for a discussion at 6pm, and definitely plan to come here Friday at 6pm for a reconvergence. Let it build.”

Police blocking of street in front of garden

Police appear to have the area around the garden blocked off while they destroy the rest of the encampment. As was planned, people will continue to gather at Octavia and Fell Streets to prepare to retake the land on Friday at 6pm. People are encouraged to take part in the mobilization and bring supplies if they are not able to make it out. Occupiers have planned a weekend long festival from Saturday to Monday, to coincide with the construction of the new development on the site of the garden.

Protester received a black eye from SFPD

As usual, most mainstream media reports are now heralding the raid, portraying protesters as out of town idiot hippies with no community support what-so-ever. Interesting how when hundreds, including many locals came through the gates for a festival last Saturday, most media was remarkably absent. The media loves a good protest story, but they love the happy ending of the government coming in, cracking skulls, and sending those that would dare resist to jail. It’s a tale that they constantly repeat and it serves as a warning to anyone else that would dare stand up to the forces of the state and business as to where struggling will get you.

The luxury condo development which is slated to take place where the garden now stands will be part of an onslaught of developments which will add to the gentrification of San Francisco and the continued displacement of many of the current residents. As the Guardian recently wrote: “Regional planners want to put 280,000 more people into San Francisco — and they admit that many current residents will have to leave.”

Police and protesters outside of Gezi Gardens

While the construction plans call for half of the site to be “affordable housing,” this is based on half of the median income of the city, which is around $60,000, still much more than many people, including many families are able to make in the city. Trust me, if some Hayes Valley Residents are uncomfortable rubbing elbows with Occupy protestors working a tomato plant, they aren’t going to allow a family from the Tenderloin or Hunter’s Point to move in next door.

San Francisco is still a city swimming with thousands of vacant properties. According to the San Francisco Business Times, “[The city] has more than 30,000 empty homes according to 2010 U.S. Census data. That means about 8.3 percent or about one in every dozen homes is vacant — more than any other surrounding county.” There is a reason for all the vacant homes as many are taken off the market by landlords so they will not be rent controlled or purposely made empty so they can be converted into condos through the Ellis Act. As in Turkey, the struggle at Gezi Gardens is not just over green space or a few trees, but a class struggle over the power of wealthy and powerful people to control and exploit our lives.

The struggle at Gezi Gardens is still far from over. See you on the streets Friday!

Eco-warriors Raid Exploratory Iron Mine Site in Wisconsin!

14/06/13. On June 11, masked eco-warriors carried out a daylight raid on the exploratory drill site for a proposed iron mine in Wisconsin’s Penokee Hills. Read on below for the anonymous communique.

On Tuesday, June 11th, some wild ones awoke to the sound of a drill rig and flatbed trucks driving up the ridge of the Penokee Hills in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Idea Drilling LLC were attempting to drill the first of eight core samples that would be used to determine the quality and quantity of iron ore in a 22-mile long stretch of the Penokee Hills, slated for open-pit mining destruction by Gogebic Taconite. Forty percent of Lake Superior’s wetlands lie downstream from the Penokee Hills, as does the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation, whose members depend on healthy waterways for their wild rice and fish. Surely, the amount of waste rock present in this type of mining would result in sulfides and heavy metal pollutants being exposed to these precious waterways downstream and would change the land that human and non-human lives depend on for survival forever. Making the preliminary stages of this mine as expensive as possible to send a clear message to financiers that this is an extremely risky investment is one strategy that was being pursued in the following action.

Wearing t-shirts and bandannas for masks, about fifteen wild ones sprang into action, added their own lock and chain to the gated entrance and built several barricades out of small boulders and downed trees. This was done on the access road in order to delay the anticipated police response for what was to happen. Once arriving to the site where the drill workers and managing geologist were, folks took the space over for about an hour. They jumped on trucks and the collection tank and threw pieces of equipment like pickaxes, fire extinguishers, and shovels down the hillside into the thick of the woods. Fences were knocked over and broken and personal cigarettes were raided out of one of the company vehicles as workers and the manager stood in awe. When it was discovered that the manager was taping all of this for evidence, their camera was snatched, broken, and thrown into the woods. Minutes later, a smart phone was snatched for the same reason and it met a similar fate.

At this point, some of the workers escaped the site in a company vehicle in order to find reception to call the police, because cell phones and CB radios do not work once you are on top of the ridge. We stayed about 10-15 minutes longer, but then decided to leave in order to avoid arrests. We disappeared into the woods and were able to outwit and outrun sheriff deputies on ATV’s because we know the terrain better than they do. We were able to inflict damages upon the company in the form of an entire day of labor costs through the disturbance and subsequent police reports that their workers had to spend their shift doing, as well as shatter their sense of security.

Another outcome of the protest is that Gogebic Taconite will be forced to hire private security for the company contracted to do exploratory drilling in the Penokee Range. Ashland and Iron County sheriff’s deputies were on the scene Tuesday, but Ashland County Sheriff Mick Brennan said they can’t afford to staff the drill site 24/7, so that kind of security is up to the mining company.

May the costs continue to be imposed and may the security guards and mining managers cower in fear.

-some wild coyotes

Elsipogtog First Nation Arrested Blocking Shale Trucks During Sacred Fire

Twelve people were arrested Friday morning by the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] at the site of a sacred fire as part of an on-going protest in New Brunswick over seismic testing in the area.

RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Chantal Farrah said the arrests were made because people were attempting to block trucks and workers.

Farrah said seven men and five women were taken into custody on Route 126 outside Moncton near Elsipogtog First Nation.

The sacred fire was lit by members of Elsipogtog on June 11 beside a highway where seismic testing vehicles are searching for shale gas deposits.

Opponents of the exploration fear that once the company, SWN Resources Canada, finds shale gas, it won’t be long before it employs a controversial drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, to get at it.

Photos on social media show some of the arrests, including one that appears to be a man holding a sacred pipe, with his hands in plastic cuffs.

Tree Sitters Successfully Turn Away Workers Sent to Cut Trees at former Hayes Valley Farm

On the morning of Friday, June 7th, the tree sitters and participants in the Liberate the Land action at Gezi Gardens, the former Hayes Valley Farm, successfully turned away the workers sent to cut the trees down. The tree cutting company arrived at about 8:00 a.m. and had the gates locked on them as climbers mounted harnesses to climb the trees inside the fence and prepare to climb those on the edge.

There are 6 platforms built in trees on the land between Oak and Fell Streets on Laguna in San Francisco. Below, gardeners water the greens,
edible perennials, and other plants as others prepare meals, organize workshops and activities, and build a village to demonstrate ecological living in the city.

This Saturday, June 8th, Gezi Gardens is hosting a barbecue, live music, workshops, and a neighborhood meeting. Live music will start as early as 10:00 a.m. with a barbecue getting underway around noon. The neighborhood and community meeting will start at 3:00 pm to open a dialogue about preserving this open green space and potentially turning it into a commons for the people of San Francisco. This will be followed by a teach in on the situation in Turkey that started when the people of Istanbul attempted to stop the destruction of one of the last open green spaces in the city.

The day before the green space was planned to be developed into a commercial shopping mall, people popped tents or slept under the stars with their kids or a book. In the morning, people stood in front of the excavation machines to stop the trees from being cut down. Police responded with tear gas and burned the tents of people in the park. The next day, 10,000 people showed up and sat shoulder to shoulder, stopping development of the green space until another violent police response.

This sparked a social uprising throughout all of Turkey that goes far beyond environmentalism. The people of Gezi Park say they are trying to stop private interests from profiting off of their land. The #GeziPark protests, some of which calling themselves #OccupyGezi, has been joined by a general strike throughout Turkey of city workers and private employees, bringing the gears of industry to a halt. When Liberate the Land marched to the land in San Francisco, they called attention to the Free Farm and Esperanza Gardens' displacement for housing development while calling for solidarity with Turkey and liberation of land from private interests around
the world.

HumanBeIn.org

@LiberateLand

#LiberateTheLand

LiberateLand@gmail.com

THEY OWE US: SHIFT THE DEBT – Fri 14 Jun

We dont owe them. They owe us

When the financial crisis hit, they told us we needed to bail them out.
When they forced their politics of austerity on us, they told us it was because we had spent too much.
With the climate crisis deepening, they push us into fuel poverty and keep on burning fossil fuels.

We dont owe them. They owe us

This is the wheels of capitalism turning. Governments helping corporations
rake in ever-greater profits.

Is this the way it is going to go?

In June the UK hosts the G8 summit – a meeting of the 1% to ensure more
business as usual.
On June 14th, we will gather in Canary Wharf, the icon of profits for the few and disaster for the many. We will transform a space, bringing beauty to the soulless heart of the crisis.
Join us to resist, create and imagine…

12.30pm, Friday 14 June
Canary Wharf

http://theyoweus.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/events/564737983566265/

ACTION UPDATE:We condemn the heavy handed policing at the Stop G8 action on Tuesday 11 June, and maintain our intention to gather at Canary Wharf on Friday 14th.

This Friday we will assemble in front of Canary Wharf tube at 12.30pm. We
will then have approximately three hours of workshops, speakers and entertainment, as well as a creative art area. The action will end with an assembly facilitated by Occupy London and then a game of Capture the Flag.

This action aims to be accessible to all, and we expect a wide range of
people including children and elderly activists to participate. See our website for more details: http://www.theyoweus.org.uk/

We stand in solidarity with those who were arrested on Tuesday. We continue to assert our right to assemble on our streets in public and show
that other worlds are possible.

They owe us! Shift the debt

FOOD LIBERATION FRONT – WHOSE FOOD? OUR FOOD! – Fri 14 Jun

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE STOP G8 LONDON WEEK OF ACTION:
https://network23.org/stopg8/week-of-action/key-events/

Hashtag: #FLF

Magical mystery tour!
Fun non-violent direct action!

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE STOP G8 LONDON WEEK OF ACTION: https://network23.org/stopg8/week-of-action/key-events/

Hashtag: #FLF

Magical mystery tour! Fun non-violent direct action! Jenny Jones on food poverty in London, Graciela Romero of War on Want on food sovereignty, Bianca Jagger (tbc) on GMOs & Ben De Vries on Permaculture. Free food!

We will be holding our first annual feast, with invited speakers, to discuss how to we can collectively liberate our food supply from corporations like Monsanto, and reclaim our food. You are invited to bring your ideas and healthy food to share.

The elites of the G8 nations will soon be meeting in 5 star luxury while the poorest sections of society, particularly children, women and older people, are increasingly going hungry in both the global south and the richest cities of the developed world.

Our governments are using the crisis that neo-liberal economic policies created to impose austerity in Europe , increasing food poverty. Western governments are supporting agricultural policies that are leading to international land grabs and a growing concentration of land ownership. This is leading to escalating food prices in some of the poorest countries in the globe.

However peoples movements are fighting back and developing real solutions: La Via Campesina is a global solidarity movement which represents 200 million agricultural producers globally and calls for "Food Sovereignty". Food Sovereignty prioritises local food production and consumption . It ensures that the rights to use and manage lands, territories, water, seeds , livestock and biodiversity are in the hands of those that produce food not the corporate sector.

People's movements in Bolivia are kicking out GM and supporting agroecology , just as the people of Europe continue to resist GM entering our food chain.

This year will see the launch of the IF campaign, during the G8 summit. This proposes more aid, transparency and an end to land grabbing, but fails to address the issue of corporate control of our food supply, the need for food sovereignty, and the increasing concentration of wealth and land in the hands of the 1%.

Join us in our campaign to highlight the real solutions to food poverty and enjoy a feast of free healthy food, together. We have invited after dinner speakers from War on Want, FareShare, Farmers' Unions and other assorted food campaigners.

Whose Food ? Our Food!

Friday 14 June, 5.30pm Crossharbour DLR station, Eastferry Rd, Isle of Dogs, E14 9QD

https://www.facebook.com/events/572992462744134/

Tar Sands protest welcomes Canadian PM

13th June 2013

Five protesters were arrested during Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper’s visit to Parliament. The Met said they were held after a protest at the Sovereign’s Entrance.

The protest sparked a major security alert.

Police raced through the Palace of Westminster to the House of Lords as demonstrators hurled oil at the Sovereign’s Entrance.

13th June 2013

Five protesters were arrested during Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper’s visit to Parliament. The Met said they were held after a protest at the Sovereign’s Entrance.

The protest sparked a major security alert.

Police raced through the Palace of Westminster to the House of Lords as demonstrators hurled oil at the Sovereign’s Entrance.

Meanwhile another group clambered onto the roof where they filmed themselves making a statement and then posted it online.

Protesters wanted to highlight plans to extract tar sands oil in Canada for export to Europe, which they argue will damage the environment.

Protester Danny Chivers was amongst those who gathered in Parliament Square. He said: “Harper has been invited to speak here but he is a completely inappropriate choice of speaker.

At about midday two women wearing T-shirts with slogans saying “Stop Harper” and “Respect Indiginous Rights” approached the gate the Queen uses to enter Parliament.

They threw oil on the floor and smeared it on their faces before attempting to chain themselves to a gate.

Police said they arrested two women on suspicion of criminal damage.

Videos posted online appeared to show other protesters on the roof of Parliament.

A female protester in the film tells the camera: “We’re on top of the Houses of Parliament and we are looking across to where we believe Stephen Harper is going to be.

“We’re hoping to get into the room and let the Lords and the Peers of the UK and hopefully the Canadian press know that we should get dirty tar sands out of Europe.”

Two men and a woman were later arrested for trespassing on a protected area.